PLATO REITERATED, HE DID NOT 'CONCEIVE'

It is customary to read that Plato "conceived " this or that in various learned books by diverse authors. But, from what I have read, and learned, thus far, in Plato's own books, he reiterates that which he has learned from prolonged study with the ancient Egyptian priests; rather than from what he had "conceived." The books of Plato that I have read so far, include : The Republic , The Laws, The Timaeus. In these books, Plato credits the ancient Egyptians as teaching the Greeks, whose knowledge they had termed "childish." This lack of understanding of the Greeks, in comparison to the Egyptians, if anything, is what Plato "conceived."